the most easily noticeable one for me is anything in a facebook-meme-style, particularly if its really smug instant distrust, assume not-even-wrong, probably some form of agitprop
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this can be good or bad, depending on whether the thing triggering allergies is actually a good sign that the information is bad
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maybe a better term is epistemic antibodies allergies when theyre misfiring this feels like a straightforward application of memes-as-germs antibodies are an important part of a memetic defense system
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Maybe we can develop immunity to our allergies so we can develop an acquired taste for the diverse ways that information is shared!
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some of them are good though like, certain keywords are signs that people get their information from a specific source, which might be untrustworthy word choice and tone can also be a good sign of someone's information collecting methods, which can be quite bad
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or info could be roughly true but motive for the dissemination, and the framing, wrong
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Cool. Generally aligned with an individual’s own communication preferences, I’d bet. Which doesn’t mean the reaction, itself, has any strong predictive meaning. The important question is what percentage of people experience it, and where their other commonalities lie.
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This is true for most of us, IMHO. And if you work in group communication you quickly find out that people have very different triggers, but equally strong 'allergic reactions.' It is amazing messages ever get out at all.
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